Here’s How Enter Air Flew A Boeing 737 MAX To Tel Aviv

How did Enter Air fly a Boeing 737 MAX halfway around the world… when flying the aircraft is banned and the MCAS could sabotage the flight at any time?

The Enter Air Boeing 737 MAX 8 that made the journey south. Photo: Enter Air

What are the details?

Enter Air, a Polish charter airline, has a small fleet of 23 aircraft. Twenty-one of these are Boeing 737-800 aircraft, and two are the Boeing 737 MAX 8. The airline has another four on order as well.

Unfortunately, due to the MCAS error that caused two Boeing 737 MAX aircraft to crash killing all on board, the 737 MAX series has been grounded. This means that Enter Air is banned from flying the aircraft anywhere in the world, much like all the other airlines that have ordered the type (and even Boeing, who has run out of room to park their 400+ undeliverable MAX aircraft).

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However, Enter Air has found that it needed to transport a single 737 MAX 8 aircraft from Warsaw to Tel Aviv, somewhat ignoring the ban.

How did they fly it?

In order to get the aircraft so far down south, Enter Air had to keep their flaps deployed and fly the aircraft below a certain altitude.

The first possible reason is that the aircraft needs maintenance. As the Boeing 737 MAX is still new and only just in the middle of being rolled out (before the grounding), likely Warsaw airport is not fully equipped to deal with the type.

The second possible reason, and far more likely in our opinion, is that the aircraft was being ferried to be put into storage.

The route of the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft. Photo: Flight Radar 24

There is one big difference between Warsaw and Tel Aviv. One city gets bone-chillingly cold winters that are full of rain, snow and ice. The other is located near a desert and has plenty of open space to store aircraft.

Journalist - Working in news media for over a decade with outlets including 9News and the Discovery Channel, Nick is an airline marketing specialist with a Masters level education. Working closely with AirAsia, Virgin Australia, Turkish Airlines and others, Nick provides unique insight and analysis on a variety of aviation topics. Based in Sydney, Australia.